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Dr. Linda Candy is a researcher in practice-led methods for studying creativity in the arts and sciences. She writes articles about the creative process, collaborative work, the role of computer support and the methodologies for investigating these areas of research. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Adelaide), a Masters in Computer Aided Learning (Leicester Polytechnic) and a doctorate in Computer Science (Loughborough) and has been a teacher and researcher in the UK and Australia. She has written many papers and articles about the creative process, collaborative work, the role of computer support and the methodologies for investigating these areas of research and is coauthor with Ernest Edmonds of a book entitled “Explorations in Art and Technology” published by Springer-Verlag.

Linda is a co-founder of the ACM Creativity and Cognition conference series and active in promoting awareness about creativity support environments in the arts, computing and design communities. She has developed and edited special issues of key journals such as the International Journal of HCI, Design Studies, Co-Design and Leonardo on emerging topics in these areas. She is an editorial board member of Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education, Behaviour and Information Technology and Knowledge Based Systems.

In the UK, she was a research scientist at Loughborough University where amongst other projects she directed COSTART: 'Studies of Computer Support for Creative Work: Artists and Technologists in Collaboration' a ground breaking project which investigated the role of collaboration between artists and technologists funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. She came to Sydney in March 2003 and was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney working on the CRC project ‘Team Collaboration in High Bandwidth Environments’ in the Key Centre for Design Computing and Cognition. She is presently an associate of the Creativity and Cognition Research Studios and honorary research fellow in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Technology, Sydney where she supervises practice-based PhD students and advises on methods for the study of user experience.